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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
C. O: Now you come to the matter indeed.
B. II. The Question Unde fit Gratia efficax, *being put of Gods special Grace, by which he arbitrarily maketh a difference, and is more than his Universal Grace, must be thus resolved, That though other Causes concur to the effect, the Great, over-ruling, differencing, and ascertaining Cause, is the very quality and aptitude of Gods operation it self, as proceeding from an absolute volition of the effect, and in the Means and Influx fitted to ascertain the effect.
- *Blank de Dist. Grat. Thes. 79. Naturam Gratiae efficacis Thomistae ponunt in motion quadam virtuosa quae est in voluntate, per modum quo impetus in re quae impellitur: Jansenius in •ffectibus Amoris & desiderii boni coelestis & spiritualis, quibus suaviter sursum rapitur animus humanus: Discip•li Cameronis in pot•n••ssima mentis illuminatione & persuasione quae voluntatem & •ffectus secum rapit. Alii in omnipotenti & efficacissima Dei operatione qua novum principium spiritualis vitae Cordi hominis vocati inditur & homo sim•l excitatur ad actus eliciendos quae hic plerique v•i docti proferunt componenda potius quam opponenda videntur. Even they that are for Physical predetermination, are not agreed what it is: some make it a transient quality passing with the act. Some say it is only mans Act it self as from God the first cause. Some with Alvarez say, It is Aliquid quod habet esse incompletum as colours in the air, that is, They know not what, and yet venture on hot contentions about it. And Jansenius who maketh it to be Delectatio or Complacentia, saith it is Actus vitalis & indeliberatus animo, & quidem amoris & desiderii praecedentis consensum ac delectationem illam quae & quies animi & gaudium dicitur. De Grat. Christi l. 4. c. 11. Much like to Vasquez, save that Vasq. calls it but an indeliberate prime motion of the affection and Jansenius calls it Indeliberate Delectation or Complacency; which certainly is an Act of man; and the Scotists say that all the Wills Acts are free, though not all its inclinations. But thus we strive about that which none of us understand, viz. How God moveth his Creatures and our Wills in special.